Sir Reginald Coupland KCMG CIE FBA (2 August 1884 – 6 November 1952) was an English historian of the British Empire.
[3] With Curtis, Coupland tried to set up an African institution in Rhodes House in the early 1930s; but they were unsuccessful in obtaining funding.
[4] From 1938 to 1943 Coupland assisted Lord Lugard and Hanns Vischer with the running of the International African Institute.
[6] He was closely involved with Graham Spry in contradicting the account published by Louis Fischer in The Nation of political undertakings given by Cripps to Abul Kalam Azad, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
[1] According to historian Caroline Elkins, Coupland's work on British imperial history had a Whig narrative of progress.
It was "deferential" in comparison with the 1944 published version, the book Capitalism and Slavery, which relied on economic reasoning going back to Lowell Joseph Ragatz, to whom it was dedicated.